When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Martin Luther King’s legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.
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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Frederick Douglas’s agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it’s spilt over for women’s rights; it’s split over for worker’s rights and so forth.
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Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.
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Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
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It’s true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.
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